LOS ANGELES (Sharewellnewswire.com) August 20, 2012 – The 4th Annual Burbank International Film Festival (BIFF), scheduled for September 5th- 9th, is just around the corner. The film festival consists of five days of film Screenings, Red Carpet Events and Awards. The festival will kick off the Opening Night with an advanced screening of the film “CinemAbility”; a documentary examining the ever- changing portrayals of disability story lines in film, television, and advertising from the silent era to today.
The film is directed by Jenni Gold (DGA) and features Ben Affleck, Jamie Foxx, Gary Sinise, William H. Macy, Marlee Matlin, RJ Mitte, Beau Bridges, Kyle MacLachlan and Gary Marshall and to name a few. Following the film screening will be an Opening Night Gala hosted by RJ Mitte from the Emmy and SAG nominated hit AMC television series “Breaking Bad”. The festival will conclude with the Closing Night Gala Awards Show hosted by NBC weathercaster and comedian, Fritz Coleman at the Castaways in Burbank.
Celebrating its 4th year, the festival is once again excited to partner with Woodbury University, and be able to use their state-of-the-art auditorium as an additional screening venue. Award-winning filmmaker and actor Jeff Rector is the new President and Festival Director, Rector says, “We want to screen as many independent films as possible and help get the filmmakers get some exposure . It’s also an amazing opportunity to make the Burbank International Film Festival into a world class festival like Sundance, Cannes and the Toronto Film Festival after all, Burbank is the home to Warner Brothers, Disney, Universal, NBC and ABC”.
In addition to the festival filmmakers awards, several Industry Honorees will receive special recognition. These include, Robert “Bobby” Moresco 2- time Oscar winning screenwriter (“Million Dollar Baby”, “Crash”), multi-award wining composer Marc Isham (“Once Upon A Time”), Annie award winning animation director, Jennifer Yuh Nelson (“Kung Fu Panda 2”), Academy Award-winning specialeffects make-up artist Rick Baker, award winning actor James Hong (“Kung Fu Panda 2”, “Chinatown”), and Mary Shuttleworth, founder and president for Youth for Human Rights International, will be receiving this year’s “Awareness Award”. Other industry honorees will be announced soon.
The Burbank International Film Festival is September 5th-9th, 2012 in Downtown Burbank, CA. For festival programming and events, to order tickets, or for more information visit http://www.burbankfilmfestival.org.
Contact President and Festival Director Jeff Rector to schedule interviews, media coverage, or festival partnerships. 1 (818) 601-2082 / jeffrector@jeffrector.com
Global Business Intelligence (BI) software vendor, Yellowfin, will host a series of Webinars, throughout Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 August.
Australia, (Sharewellnewswire.com) August 20, 2012 - The Location IntelligenceBest Practices Webinars will explore the intensification of enterprise data mapping and dissect the major trends and non-negotiable best practices of Location Intelligence (LI).
LI enables business analysts and report consumers to apply geographic contexts to business data by combining location-based data with traditional metrics captured within a BI system.
Register for a Webinar time here: http://www.yellowfinbi.com/ YFCommunityNews-Webinar-event-Location-Intelligence-best-practices-117396
“Attendees will learn how to harness advanced mapping capabilities to advantage their organization by effectively aligning business development and strategy,” said Yellowfin CEO, Glen Rabie.
“As noted by IDC, 80% of corporate data has a spatial element, so Location Intelligence is an integral component of any enterprise data strategy. Merging location-based and traditional Business Intelligence information provides context to business data, uncovering previously unrealized relationships between different data types, to expose new business opportunities.”
Rabie said Webinar participants would learn:
•The latest trends driving development and demand for LI. •Why the ability to map, visualize and understand data from a geographic standpoint will become an increasingly important part of any BI solution. •How to deploy best practice LI to generate context, meaning and expose crucial relationships between data types. •Why Yellowfin’s Macquarie University implementation was recognized by Ventana Research as the best 2010/11 worldwide example of LI and the most likely to produce significant business value heading into 2012.
“If the ability to understand the relationships between key data sets – your infrastructure, your customers, your suppliers – and discover new opportunities by effectively aligning development and strategy is important to you and your business, then this Webinar is a must,” said Rabie.
There are three concise forty minute Webinars scheduled throughout Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 August.
Following the Webinar, attendees will receive a copy of the presentation slides and a recording for on-demand viewing.
To register for a session, click here: http://www.yellowfinbi.com/ YFCommunityNews-Webinar-event-Location-Intelligence-best-practices-117396
About Yellowfin
Yellowfin is a global Business Intelligence (BI) software vendor passionate about making BI easy. Yellowfin is headquartered and developed in Melbourne, Australia, offering a highly intuitive 100 percent Web-based reporting and analytics solution. Founded in 2003 in response to the complexity and costs associated with implementing and using traditional BI tools, Yellowfin is a leader in mobile, collaborative and embeddable BI as well as Location Intelligence and data visualization. For more information, visit www.yellowfinbi.com
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Austin, TX (Sharewellnewswire.com) August 20, 2012 – Ping-pong (or table tennis) is on the verge of its first breakthrough since 1988, when ping-pong was officially deemed an Olympic Sport. Despite being the second most played sport in the world, the image of players wearing headbands, tight white shorts and using boring red and black paddles doesn’t exactly get the heart racing. Uberpong is stepping in to change the game by personalizing and customizing the heart of the game: the ping-pong paddle.
Uberpong aims to enhance the game of ping-pong by combining great art and design with quality ping-pong paddles. Graphic designers, illustrators and artists from around the world have contributed their custom designs in the first rollout of Uberpong paddles. Soon, pong-lovers will be able to customize paddles with images and designs of their own.
"Andre Agassi changed the way tennis was perceived when he wore crazy outfits on his way to winning Grand Slam tournaments," says founder David Lowe. "We want to do a similar thing with ping-pong. The Uberpong ping-pong paddle designs are an extension of your personality. We want you to play with style."
Uberpong is a new business that recently reached its $10,000 funding goal on Kickstarter. To learn more about this project, and be one of the first to experience the Uberpong paddle, visit the teaser page.
About Uberpong
Uberpong (www.weheartpong.com) is a ping pong brand with the goal of revolutionizing the game of table tennis. By mixing the sport of ping-pong with art and design, Uberpong hopes to individualize and personalize the sport.
Montclair, N.J.(Sharewellnewswire.com) August 20, 2012 - Relocation Insurance Group (dba Moving Insurance LLC) is pleased to announce the launch of a new website featuring insurance for moving companies –www.fvpinsurance.com.
On the website, moving company leaders can learn about Full Value Protection (FVP) Insurance, an all- new and exclusive product that works double duty. It provides coverage for customer goods, while also providing moving company insurance for certain types of liability.
“This new product is specifically designed to assist interstate moving companies that were required to adopt expanded Full Value Protection regulations effective May 15,” says Relocation Insurance Group CEO, Gadi Binness. “FVP Insurance not only helps moving companies comply with regulations – it also shields them from the negative effects of household goods and cargo claims that deteriorate motor cargo policy loss ratios.”
The Full Value Protection Insurance program joins the company’s expansive line-up of moving insurance and relocation insurance products. “Most other moving insurance products are designed to help consumers. Full Value Protection Insurance is different because it helps moving companies protect themselves and serve customers better,” says Binness.
• Free claims handling • Simple monthly billing with no annual premium • Compliance with states’ DOT, US DOT and STB requirements • Broad protection with deductibles as low as $500 and limits as high as $500,000 • Coverage of customer goods while in carriers’ possession (typically excluded in motor truck cargo policies)
Moving companies and insurance brokers interested in learning more can download aFull Value Protection Insurance Get Started Kitor call a Full Value Protection Insurance Specialist at 888-893-8835, ext. 112.
“For years, we have served consumers with convenient, affordable moving coverage. Now, our Full Value Protection Insurance provides moving companies the same convenience and peace of mind,” Binness says.
About Relocation Insurance Group
Relocation Insurance Group, LLC (dba Moving Insurance, LLC) is a property and casualty insurance agency specializing in the relocation industry, licensed in all 50 states. Established in 2003, Relocation Insurance Group has revolutionized the way consumers purchase moving insurance. The relocation insurance program provides coverage through a network of more than 2,000 affiliated relocation companies. For more information, visithttp://www.relocationinsurance.com.
San
Francisco, CA (Sharewellnewswire.com) August 17, 2012- Almost two
decades after the emergence of the business and life coach profession,
coaching credentials are suddenly becoming more of a requirement. Even
veteran coaches are seeking out accredited training programs using the
gold standard set by the International Coach Federation (ICF) to
attract clients and higher fees for coaching contracts and speaking
engagements.
Revenues
from professional coaching have nearly doubled over the past few years;
globally to $1.9 billion. Industry trends also show that top-earners
are now earning in excess of $65,000 per year according to the 2012 ICF
Global Coaching study. A recent global survey of coaching clients by
Price Waterhouse Coopers and the Association Resource Center concluded
that the mean ROI for companies investing in coaching was 7 times the
initial investment, with over a quarter reporting an ROI of 10 to 49
times.
Helen Attridge, CEO and Director of Training of the Academy of Coaching and NLPwww.nlpcacoach.orgis
attracting participants from around the world in her training programs
in the United States. The summer intensive program in the San Francisco
Bay Area is full, and people are already signing up for the next U.S.
training program in November. A.C.N. also offers training programs in
China and Mexico.
The
popularity of Attridge’s coach training programs go way beyond
credentials. Attridge wants to change the world one coach at a time and
that emphasis has hit a global chord. The international trainer and
master certified coach’s unique perspective was hatched in China, where
she had taken a teaching job with the NLP’s Institute of California
Coach Training Program after working with CEOs and executives
internationally as a Results Coach for the Anthony Robbins Company.
“My
teaching job in China opened my eyes and I saw that the Chinese are
hungry, not just for corporate growth but also for personal
development,” says Attridge. According to an article in Forbes magazine
(Where China’s New Rich Are Putting Their Money/3/28/12),
almost half of affluent high net worth individuals in China intend to
take part in training programs over the next three years. An old
Chinese proverb stating, ‘remember what you have received and forget
what you have given’ leads Attridge to believe that the country is ripe
for an explosion of philanthropy. This is the China that she is
convinced will surprise the rest of the world with their rapid ascent
to embrace change, learn and grow. “Training and coaching in China has
really touched me at a deep level, the students have a deep desire for
growth personally and professionally.”
So
Helen set out to bring coaches together who want to create positive
changes in the world. In 2009, she took over the NLP Coach Training
Program, from the NLP Institute of California, renamed it the Academy
of Coaching and NLP. Since then, she has redesigned the coaching
program to emphasize how we must be the change we want to see in the
world and to help students clarify how they will create their “ripple
of change.”
A.C.N.’s
unique program does that through an experiential, holistic training
model that uses NLP to help coaches gain the coaching and interpersonal
skills they need to work effectively. NLP—which stands for neuro (the
brain), linguistic (communication), programming (the organization of
information to create the results you want)—steers the brain to find
solutions.
“People
spend more time learning how to program their iPhone or their TV remote
than their brain,” says Attridge. “By helping people figure out whether
they process information using visual, auditory or kinesthetic language
and then how to use that modality to organize information, we help them
to create change and save a lot of time in the process.
“In
coaching we say, ‘The gap between where you are and where you want to
be is the story you tell yourself about why you can’t have that,’” she
says. “NLP helps rewrite that script by understanding what the beliefs
are and why they’re there.”
Attridge’s
Academy of Coaching and NLP, which is accredited by the rigorous
International Coach Federation (ICF), moves each client toward an
increased understanding of his/her choices by providing support that
enhances the client’s own talents, resources and vision. “We elicit
solutions from the client,” says Attridge. “The coach helps the client
to create the results he/she wants by facilitating the solution rather
than coming up with it. Our students use the training to help others
transform themselves and the world around them.”
Attridge’s
ripple of change focus attracts a global clientele from a multitude of
different backgrounds, including health professionals, executives,
therapists, veteran coaches seeking the prestigious ICF credential and
people who are completely new to the field of coaching. People from 15
different cultures have signed up for this summer’s San Francisco Bay
Area (Marin County) intensive 20-day program including:
· A female lawyer from Russia · A psychotherapist from Estonia · Executives from Singapore and Brazil · An executive coach who lives in England and trains in Europe and China · An author · A luxury branding consultant who wants to shift to being a branding coach · A marketing professional who wants to incorporate coaching into her business offering · Six teaching assistants from Mexico, China France and the US · An Israeli health professional who wants to become a health coach · Several individuals who are new to the coaching profession · Several veteran coaches from around the globe seeking ICF accreditation · Several coaches who want to add NLP to their skill set
The
Academy of Coaching and NLP’S five-month program, which starts on
November 1, 2012 and takes place over five four-day weekends, attracts
an equally diverse, international group in part due to the fact that
Helen, who was born and raised in Ireland and holds American
citizenship, considers herself more of a global citizen. She left home
at a relatively young age, traveled, studied and worked her way around
the world. Helen’s ability to adapt and connect across cultures, ages
and religions has created the perfect blend of life experience and
training to do this important work.
Attridge’s
global reach isn’t confined to those people who come to her. She has
strengthened the existing coach programs she inherited from the NLP
Institute in both China and Mexico, where she focuses on teaching
executives how to make decisions from the heart. A business
colleague—Mr. Zeng from Shenzhen China—stated that even with the
unprecedented growth and opportunities in his country, life
satisfaction seems to have dropped over the last two decades, “What I
have learned through the A.C.N. training program has helped me create a
personal goal to connect Chinese leaders back into the joy of life and
to help them grow by using their experience and wisdom to improve and
change their family, their companies and their communities.”
Attridge with Chinese Student SKY ZHENG
Attridge
sees her efforts as a stepping stone to global leadership. “I partner
with people who want to transform the world—whether locally, nationally
or internationally—making it a healthier, more prosperous and peaceful
place,” she says. She hopes that all who go through Academy of Coaching
and NLP’s Trainings will do the same. To that end, she also offers Open
Space for Coaches, a program that brings coaches from all different
training backgrounds together to “re-juice their passion, network and
share their vision for creating change through coaching. “At Open Space
for Coaches, we’ll create new energy to make our ripples of change in
the world,” promises the website. “We’ll create a whole ocean of
ripples as we bring our heart’s work into the bigger world!
For more information about Attridge’s Academy of Coaching and NPL, contact Helen Attridge, A.C.N.Helen@nlpcacoach.comor 530-477-0314 or visit:www.nlpcacoach.org
Maya and the Turtle, a timeless fairy tale from Korea, will make its English debut in Los Angeles on August 18, 2012.
(Sharewellnewswire.com)
August 16, 2012 - Illustrator and co-author Soma Han and co-author John
Stickler will sign and “chop” copies of the new children’s book from
Tuttle Publishing at two venues in Koreatown. From 1-3 p.m. they will
appear at The Korean Book Center, downstairs in the Koreatown Plaza at
928 So. Western Avenue (213-738-9140).
At 4 p.m. they will introduce the story with a reading at the Pio Pico Koreatown Library, 694 So. Oxford Avenue (213-368-7642).
Fine
artist Soma Han previously illustrated Tigers, Frogs and Rice Cakes, a
collection of Korean proverbs for children, and Land of Morning Calm:
Korean Culture Then and Now, both from Shen’s Books. John Stickler,
formerly with CBS News in Seoul, collaborated with her on this inspiring
legend of filial piety. The book is dedicated to Soma’s mother who
heard the tale at her mother’s knee and passed it on to Soma when she
was a little girl.
